📱 Best Platforms
Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube
📖 The Hustle
Each episode explores a different obscure hobby through interviews with passionate hobbyists. Cover lockpicking, miniature painting, birdwatching, mushroom foraging, fountain pen collecting, and competitive jigsaw puzzling. People love discovering new subcultures. Monetize through ads, affiliate links to hobby starter kits, and selling a hobby discovery guide.
🚀 First Step
Find one passionate hobbyist through a subreddit or Facebook group, record a 25-minute interview about why they love their hobby, and publish.
🔑 Keys to Success
- Have the guest share one beginner tip and one advanced secret
- Create companion blog posts with links to starter equipment for each hobby
- Build a 'hobby match' quiz to recommend which episode to start with
🛠 Tools & Resources: Riverside.fm, Buzzsprout, Canva, Reddit, Descript